Comments on: Do you get paid for booting?

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By: Jessie

Jessie — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 10:19:29 +0000

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By: Grimer

Grimer — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 19:57:57 +0000

I used to work for an Insurance/Investment company on the phones. They stated that I had to be ‘at work and logged on for nine’. I used to *switch on* my PC at 9am and took things from there. Things were said by the ridiculous managers and totally ignored by myself. What are they really going to do to an employee that arrives on time and is sitting at their desk at 9am? Worst company I have ever worked for (and I worked at McDonalds and a meat processing factory while a student).

By: Jobby

Jobby — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 13:16:31 +0000

The biggest wait where I work is for McAfee Total Protection for Small Business to update itself which starts a few minutes after logging in to the PC. This takes a good five minutes at least and during this time my PC is so unresponsive that I just go and get a coffee.

I’m noticing a trend here involving coffee!

By: Alex

Alex — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 08:47:03 +0000

You could always just lock your machine and go home

Not very green though.

Personally I start the filter coffee up while both my PC (XP) and Laptop (XP) boot up. They take less than five minutes, but it means they’re completely finished gurgling by the time I want to open my emails.

By: David Wright

David Wright — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 06:56:40 +0000

My iMac boots in about 30 seconds, 1 minute to the desktop, after entering user name and password.

My XP machine at work, about 1 minute to log on screen, another 2 minutes or so to get the desktop with the start-up apps loaded.

My home Vista machine, about the same.

I usually turn on my machine, go get a coffee, come back, enter the user name and password, go and do something else for a minute or two, then come back. I don’t normally sit there waiting for it to boot.

That said, if the PCs really take that long to start up, the employer should employ somebody to come in half an hour earlier to run around turning all the machines on… :-S

By: Alan

Alan — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 16:01:07 +0000

We have some sites were people clock into our time system through their PCs but automatically give them an extra 5 minutes at the start and end of the day to make up for booting and closing down their computers.

By: Jonno

Jonno — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 15:31:53 +0000

While I am lucky enough not to work for a jackbooted sadist as detailed in this article. About 2 years ago, while we were still using Windows 2000, as a result of the ridiculusly inadequate site network and vigorous security settings etc used to leave a boot taking approx 20 minutes, if you coaght it when there was a system update we were looking at over 45 minutes!.
It is now below the 5 minute mark, which is sensible, and barely gives me time to get to the coffee machine…!

By: TimoGunt

TimoGunt — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 13:13:41 +0000

Do you think maybe David and Bayon need to have a good clean up on their systems. If my pc takes longer than 3 minutes plus maybe a minute to load the apps at tops and then I start finding ways to reduce the boot times. Get rid of quicktime loading up and that little gamma correction utility for your screen that when removed makes no difference to your screen anyway.

I have to say that the Win 7 boot time is very impressive though